Such a time as this!' Was there ever such a time? Look at the condition of heathenism. It is everywhere tottering. The idols are on the beasts, Bel boweth down.' The grim gods sit half famished already. There is a crack in every temple wall. Mahommedanism, Buddhism, Brahminism- they are none of them progressive. They are none of them vital. Think how only the Gospel outleaps apace and time. How all these systems are of time and devoured by it, as Saturn eats his own children. They are of the things that can be shaken, and their being shaken makes more certain the remaining of the things that cannot be shaken.
Look at the fields open. India, China, Japan, Africa, in a word,' The field is the world' in a degree in which it never was before. Such a time', a time of seething, and we can determine the cosmos; a plastic time, and we can mould it; it is a deluge, push the ark boldly out and ransom some.
